Day 3 - Morning update

Jared looks better today, the swelling in his face has gone down a lot, we can almost recognize him. We are very blessed!

The nurse was just surprised that she could check his eyes without having to use giant q-tips to help open them, because of the swelling they were extremely tight. Yesterday they couldn't even open his right eye.

No infections!! Antibiotics are not used until necessary. We are still waiting for the ICP (intra cranial pressure) to lessen but his numbers look great.

There are three numbers that we are always watching - heart rate, blood pressure and icp.

HR - for a healthy sleeping teen is around 65 Jared - 73
BP - for a healthy sleeping teen is around 90/50 Jared - 122/72 which is good! They want it to be a little higher to help profuse the brain (more blood going to the brain)
ICP - they do not want this number to be over 20 Jared - 11

One of the doctors that works with the brain surgeon just came in and said that he should be able to remove the monitors from Jared's brain within the next 24-48 hours. He and Dr. Smith (brain surgeon) will be back this afternoon to give us more information. We have not seen Dr. Smith since he finished the surgery Monday evening, and we have only seen the other doctor once on Tuesday.

We are waiting for the PICU physician to come will send an update this afternoon.

Thank you for your continued love, support and prayers.

We are so grateful for everyone in the medical field for the jobs they do, so I'm declaring today as hug-a-nurse day, so if you know someone in the medical field how about passing on a hug or a giant thank you!